Gang violence, hunger, and political instability threaten Haiti's survival as a state as the UN calls for urgent international security and peacekeeping interventions.

More than 5,601 people in Haiti were killed in Haiti last year as a result of gang violence, about a thousand more than in 2023, the UN said.

The head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), Maria Isabel Salvador, says the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country is showing signs of progress on the political front despite serious setbacks in terms of security.

Maria Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, presented her report on the situation in Haiti to the Security Council via

Haiti's capital could become overrun by criminal gangs if the international community does not step up aid to a UN-backed security mission to the Caribbean nation, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned in a report Wednesday.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the international community to provide urgent additional financial support to the Mission to prevent gangs from taking over the entire metropolitan area of

The United Nations chief is warning that gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, Port-au-Prince, leading to a complete breakdown of government authority without additional international support for the beleaguered national police.

The United Nations chief issued a warning in a report released on Wednesday about the escalating threat posed by gangs in Haiti, emphasizing that without additional international support for the

Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence.

Haiti’s capital could become overrun by criminal gangs if the international community does not step up aid to a UN-backed security ... area” of Port-au-Prince. The UN secretary-general ...

On Wednesday, January 29, after his meeting at the Élysée with the President of France Emmanuel Macron, Leslie Voltaire, President pro tempore of the Transitional Council in Haiti, was the guest of RFI and France

Haiti's transitional council president Leslie Voltaire said in an interview on Wednesday that a date for the Caribbean nation's long-awaited general elections has been fixed for around Nov. 15 of this year.